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Berenice was a member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea between 39 BC and 92 AD. She was the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I and Cypros and a sister of King Herod Agrippa II.
She was the great-granddaughter of the ruthless, mentally unstable King Herod the Great and. daughter of Herod Agrippa I, a shrewd man and a close friend of the Roman emperor Claudius. she married well three times – she seemed to have inherited her father’s shrewd intellect.
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Apr 17, 2024 · Berenice (born ad 28) was a lover of the Roman emperor Titus and a participant in the events leading up to the fall of Jerusalem. The eldest daughter of the Judaean tetrarch Herod Agrippa I by his wife Cypros, Berenice was married at age 13, but her husband died without consummating the marriage.
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Feb 7, 2010 · Berenice was the daughter of King Agrippa I, the grandson of Herod the Great and client king of Judea. She married her uncle Herod, King of Chalcis, a small realm in Syria. After his death, Chalcis was awarded to her brother, with whom she ruled for a time until she married King Polemo of Cicilia, Anatolia. She returned to Judea in time for the ...
This Herodian princess, born in a.d. 28, daughter of Agrippa I makes a brief appearance in the NT in the story of Paul’s examination before Festus at Caesarea ( Acts 25:13-27 ). She was visiting the Rom. garrison town with her able brother, Agrippa II.
Mar 19, 2019 · Julia Berenice was born into the Herodian royal family in the late 20s C.E. Her father, Judean client-king Herod Agrippa I, often went by Agrippa and was himself educated in Rome alongside the Julio-Claudian heirs.
Pleads for Jerusalem. Beloved by Titus. Her Marriages. Daughter of Herod Agrippa I. and of Cypros, the daughter of Phasael; born in 28. She was first married to Marcus, son of the alabarch Alexander of Alexandria. Her husband dying within a short time, her father married her to his brother Herod of Chalcis (Josephus, "Ant." xix. 5, § 1).